Saints Row IV

When critics and fans pinned descriptors like "absurd" and "over-the-top" and "running around pantsless," we didn't really intend them to be a challenge. Volition, bolstered and encouraged by new publisher Deep Silver, have interpreted the praise just so.

The curtain was pulled back on Saints Row 4 at PAX East, and we were there to cover it. Now, you can see what we saw, including super powers, crazy new weapons like the dubstep gun, and a mech that dances the robot.

The seven-minute developer walkthrough below covers new activities, the alien menace, visual weapon customization (in addition to Saints Row: The Third's upgrades), and a robot that dances the robot.

Ok, this looks *** terrible. Are they even trying anymore? It looks like they got really high one day and made a list of things they thought were cool and decided to put them in the game. Let's see what we got so far: President of the US, dubstep guns, cartoon-y inflation, monster trucks, aliens, giant robot suits, virtual reality, super powers, and a ****load of other stuff. Then they lazily wrap all this *** together with the same exact game engine from the previous entry. It couldn't be more of an incoherent mess if it tried. I can understand wanting to make the game zanier and more crazy, but that doesn't mean they need to throw a bunch of random *** at a wall just to see what sticks. There's a reason why most shows, movies, and games that are seen as "crazy" have at least one straight man. When this balls to the wall insanity doesn't have any sort of realism to temper it, it just looks incredibly shallow.